Saw that. Duncan’s FB was scrubbed earlier this morning.
See also post #40:
https://www.facebook.com/josephus.weeks1?fref=ufi
Josephus LiberianMan Weeks shared a link.
September 28 at 1:05pm ·
Nursing student uses trash bags as protection from ebola.
CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen reports on a woman caring for her relatives who have Ebola who has avoided contracting the disease.
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Health officials have acknowledged that Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, was initially sent home from Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas when he showed up on Sept. 26 complaining of fever and abdominal pain. He had to return two days later in an ambulance.
That was the day “I called CDC to get some actions taken, because I was concerned for his life and he wasn’t getting the appropriate care,” Duncan’s nephew, Josephus Weeks, told NBC News on Wednesday night. “I feared other people might also get infected if he wasn’t taken care of, and so I called them to ask them why is it a patient that might be suspected of this disease was not getting appropriate care?”
Weeks added that he hoped “nobody else got infected because of a mistake that was made.”
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“I’m not angry,” Weeks said. “It’s more frustration and concern. ... I’m hoping that he can get the same kind of treatment that was given to the four other patients that survived, and that’s my concern, and that’s why I’m still asking about it.”
CHARLOTTE, NC — While hospital officials in Texas and the Center for Disease Control are taking heat Wednesday for how they’ve handled the first Ebola case in the United States, the family of the man suffering from the illness spoke exclusively with WCCB News.
We are learning more about possible missteps in Thomas Eric Duncan’s treatment.
His nephew, Josephus Weeks, lives in Kannapolis, NC. He talked with WCCB’s Courtney Francisco in his first appearance on camera since he learned of his uncle’s sickness. “We’re just hoping and praying that Eric survives tonight,” said Weeks. “We got our hopes up for him.” He is now worrying about how to save one of his own. He knows the experimental drug that saved the lives of two Ebola patients with ties to Charlotte is no longer available. “Eric is a family man,” said Weeks. “He’s still a person, and we would appreciate if he could get the best care possible.’ Weeks echos reports that his uncle went to a Dallas hospital after arriving in the U.S. from Liberia. He says doctors sent Duncan home with antibiotics, but he came back to the hospital days later. At that point, doctors quarantined him and confirmed he had the virus. “It’s very stressful, but we just, we appreciate as much help as we can get, because they just got here and contracted this stuff,” said Weeks. “He needs to pay back the hospital, and he does have kids that require some help as well.” That’s new information that Duncan traveled from Liberia to see his children. Weeks says doctors are checking those children for any signs of Ebola. “That’s what I want, just for my family member to be okay,” worried Weeks. Now Weeks wonders how his family will pay for this treatment. SIM USA and Samartian’s Purse paid more than $1 million in treatment for Nancy Writebol and two doctors.
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